“The funny thing is that Harry came into my head almost completely formed - I saw him very, very clearly; I could see this skinny little boy with black hair, this weird scar on his forehead, I knew instantly that he was a wizard, but he didn’t know that yet.” —J.K.

“Besides, the world isn’t split into good people and death eaters. We have all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

“You see, when dear sweet Lily Potter gave her life for her only son, it provided him with the ultimate protection, I could not touch him. It was old magic, something I should have foreseen. But no matter, no matter, things have changed. I CAN TOUCH YOU… NOW!”

if they can do it… why not us?

- Harry Potter, such an honor it is. 

- Who are you?

- Dobby, sir. Dobby…the house-elf.

“The whole series for me is about loss of innocence and about Harry going from this kind of wide-eyed child … into this slightly grizzled young man by the end of it. Although as I was saying to people the other day, it is essential that he does not turn into a man necessarily in the film, because what makes all that fight stuff at the end so powerful and so kind of horrible to watch is the fact that you’re seeing a kid get beaten up by a very strong, very angry man.” - Daniel Radcliffe